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J.J. Abrams, the creator of Lost and Alias, teams up with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Mission: Impossible 3, Transformers) to create this highly anticipated drama series. Featuring Australian newcomer Anna Torv, Josh Jackson, John Noble and Lance Reddick, the first electrifying season of Fringe follows an unlikely trio who uncover a deadly mystery that may be part of a larger and more disturbing pattern that lives somewhere between science fiction and reality. As the season begins, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Torv) is called in to investigate a mysterious outbreak that nearly kills her partner. The only person with any answers is an institutionalized scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop (Noble) who can only be released under the care of his estranged son (Jackson). Together, the three discover that the answer to this mystery is only a small piece of a much larger, more shocking truth. Find the patterns . . . right here, on iTunes!

The unlikely trio's strange partnership begins as they investigate the mysterious death of a woman who conceives, carries to full term and then births a baby in the span of hours and her baby, who ages 80 years in a matter of minutes. As the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable occurrences are explored, quirky Dr. Bishop runs extensive testing in the lab; his reluctant son, Peter, endures his new role as his father's keeper; and Olivia turns to Massive Dynamic Chief Operating Officer Nina Sharp for assistance.

Further exploring the blurring line between the possible and the unimaginable, our unlikely trio investigates a horrific bus incident in which the dead bodies of commuters are frozen inside a bus like insects in amber. Led by the unconventional Dr. Bishop, who requests a piano in the lab to help him process data, the team uncovers a man who has visions of Pattern-related disturbances before they happen and race to decipher the distraught mans thoughts to prevent another atrocious event from occurring.

After a deadly explosion rocks a construction site in New York City, Broyles solicits the aid of our unlikely threesome to investigate a strange cylinder mysteriously found at the scene and completely unharmed by the surrounding devastation. After Olivia uncovers an unbelievable commonality between disturbing events, Dr. Bishop takes matters into his own hands and Peter is forced into field duty, it almost seems as if the untraceable object is triggering the series of odd behaviors, unexpected events and surprising revelations in "The Arrival."

When its discovered that a rather simple man has the ability to harness electricity, dangerous and deadly occurrences follow, and our unlikely trio investigates this super-charged oddity. Meanwhile, Olivia has a high-voltage encounter of a different kind when she is rocked by a blast from her past, and Dr. Bishop turns to his feathered friends and enlists homing pigeons to help him break the case.

As animal rights activists ransack a laboratory, they get more than they bargained for when one of the caged "animals" unleashes a ferocious appetite. Leaving grotesquely mutilated dead bodies in its wake, the scientifically engineered beast – with the body of a lion, claws of an eagle, fangs of a viper, skin of a rhinoceros and tail of a serpent – attacks Charlie (series star Kirk Acevedo). With Charlie's life on the line, Walter must come face-to-face with both his past and the beast.

As a suicide incident occurs at New York's iconic Grand Central station, Agent Dunham simultaneously witnesses the event while asleep and dreaming in Boston. Rattled by the extraordinary and coincidental circumstances, Olivia, Peter and Walter investigate further, but keep coming up empty-handed. As these violent occurrences continue and worsen, Olivia is sent into an unthinkable direction and shocking details emerge about the ZFT manuscript, the highly experimental drug Cortexiphan and Olivia's childhood.

The Fringe Division is on the case when severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up. After their
investigation leads them to a scientist (guest star Jefferson Mays) with possible ties to the Z.F.T. bioterrorist cell, they are
shocked to discover the identity and motive of the killer. When the kills occur with increasing frequency, Olivia, Peter and Walter go to desperate lengths to stop them.

Setting the stage for the dramatic and revealing first season finale are a sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David Robert Jones (guest star Jared Harris) and the inexplicable disappearance of Walter. Find out more about the mysterious events surrounding our trio when questions are answered, observations made, loyalties are tested and the elusive William Bell (guest star Leonard Nimoy) is finally introduced.

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Pure Genius

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jmorrison

This is one of those shows that comes along every so often that you will wish you watched since day one. Do not miss it. Imagine if the creators of LOST were to make an X-Files for the new generation based in theoretical science rather than aliens. Answer: FRINGE

Could be the X-Files for the 2000's.

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animavisual

It's as if JJ Abrams has been planning Fringe all along, and everything before it was simply preparing the groundwork for this kind of show to be allowed on major network television. Mix the government/international-conspiracy race against time of Alias with the bizarre and supernatural freakshow that is Lost (with a plane crash to boot), and you get Fringe: surprisingly more than the sum of its parts.
Hope they know where they're going with this.

Great Acting, a spectacular plot, and pilot episode..but what does the future hold for the show?

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brandon4444

Well, I turned on the show, the first scene was automatically compelling to me. I was a fan of 28 weeks later, and this show reminded me alot of how a virus sort of spreads, and it could likely involve animal testing as shown in parts of the episode. The acting was phenomenal, not to mention the plot grips you and tried to pull you in farther. The use of special effects and the block letters stating the location of each scene (which i must say i loved, especially how when the camera panned around the scene, the block letters will still there floating) just make the show sparkle even more. Now the best part about the show was the sound. The music fit perfectly, and the use of Japanese horror sounds made the show eerie and creepy yet mysterious and safe. Think of fingers across a chalkboard sounds, but these sounds are not just thrown around, they were put in at perfect spots (you will understand what i mean when you buy the episode)
my only worry is that this show will end up like lost..and leave me lost...I saw the preview for the episodes to come and it seems like they might get off on a tangent of what the shows real purpose is. But it is about alot of stuff we don't know about...invisibility ,re-animation, psychological terms and activities are thrown around alot and mind-reading and linking with the dead all make this show worthwhile. BUY IT